Public Asks

QUESTION: Are provisional ballots only counted when they change the outcome of an election? ANSWER: No. Local election officials tabulate any and all provisional ballots that they deem eligible to...

QUESTION: Sandy Ellington-Graves, chairman of the Alamance-Burlington school board, who is employed as a real estate agent, has been said to be the selling and buying agent for Dr....

QUESTION: Has the Southern High School football coach been fired from both his school job (as a teacher), as well as his football coaching job, or only the latter? ANSWER:...

Isn’t ABSS paying the medical costs for students injured in bus wreck?  Why has GoFundMe plea been set up for one injured student? https://alamancenews.com/the-public-asks-isnt-abss-paying-the-medical-costs-for-students-injured-in-bus-wreck-why-has-gofundme-plea-been-set-up/ Was the bus wreck really the fault...

QUESTION: Was Mebane’s new police chief, Mitch McKinney, involved in a car crash while driving a city-owned SUV along I-85 on September 6? Why was he in that area? ANSWER:...

QUESTION: Does a raft of newly-approved changes to Burlington’s unified development ordinance prohibit people from parking on the front lawns of residential properties? How does this rule affect owners...

QUESTION: Did a Graham-based homebuilder fail to obtain the proper county-level permits to construct three high-dollar dwellings on lots that lie partially within a floodplain that hugs the Haw...

QUESTION: Why is Alamance County charging people more to haul their own household garbage directly to its municipal landfill? ANSWER: The business of waste disposal is apparently at the mercy...

QUESTION: What is being built just down from Hursey’s BBQ in Graham and near River Mill Academy on South Main Street? ANSWER: According to plans filed with the city of...

QUESTION: The company that has been awarded nearly $20 million in contracts to do mold remediation in Alamance-Burlington schools has since offered to donate $29,500 worth of gift cards...